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NHS Trust Faces £350,000 Fine
By Jean-Jacques Maleval, Thu, January 12th, 2012
Following hard disk theft
NHS Trust faces £350k fine following hard disk theft
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust faces huge fine – nearly three times the previous record – after stolen hard disks containing patient data were sold on eBay. An NHS Trust in Brighton faces a fine of £350,000 after hard drives containing patient data were stolen and sold on auction website eBay. According to the Argus newspaper, 232 hard drives were stolen from PCs that were kept in a locked store room at Brighton General Hosptial. Four of the drives were later sold on eBay. The buyer informed Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust of the incident, and a later investigation revealed the extent of the theft.
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